Carriers try to remain upbeat despite negative reports
Second-quarter financial reports have shown mostly negative returns for trucking companies due to challenging conditions in the industry. To counteract heavy losses, carriers promise to increase [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 18:21:00
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Listed Flatbed Trucking Services Sage Coach Transportation
Flatbeds Breathable & weatherproof tarps. Post TruckLoads Associations Booking Services Brokers Carriers TL Cb Radios Collections Compliance Drug ... Magazines Manufacturers Misc. Freight Audit. Listed Next Search 120,000 Truck Loads Click here Search other categories Expediters. Trucking co s and freight brokers make new leads on daily basis using [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 10:09:15
Some companies are lowering their
But, since customers figure trucking companies overall must be desperate for any load they can theyre squeezing their carriers to push down rates ... and their insurance rates are higher, Scherck said. Advertise About Us The national economy is slowing, so freight ... . 17, Stevens Transport prospering amid tough times for trucking industry Dallas [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 21:19:59
Chuo Warehouse Company Limited Circle Express Inc
Contact Us www. ProgressiveCommercial. com Save This Share This Rate This Sponsored Links Freight Trucking Truckload, LTL, Land, Air, ... information service that communicates shipment information among shippers, carriers, and consignees [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 12:38:41
Latest Quarterly Shippers’ Survey
(Supply Chain Digest)Some Signs of Truckload Capacity Tightening, Continued Move of Freight from Truck to RailWith the collapse of Bear Stearns, ... perceive tightening in terms of truckload carrier capacity, after almost two years of increasing ... for many years at his old firm. It is now called The State of the Freight, and the results [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 08:34:00
If its good fit there
www. axonsoftware. comPaid Axon Trucking Software With Dispatch Full featured trucking company management software from Axon includes dispatch, AR, ... Transportation Software LoadTech System for carriers, 3PL brokers, LTL, TL, Intermodal, more www ... maintenance, load building, load consolidation, freight rating, logistics, and third party logistics. [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 20:02:53
TCA presents new initiatives, plans for 2009
NEW ORLEANS. The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) introduced a newly redesigned website, a new online feature called Trucking on the Green and the migration of the supplier and membership directories to an all-electronic format at the annual ATA [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 15:55:00
Keypoint trucking Management Software Keypoint
Since TransCores Keypoint has focused on delivering outstanding results and providing firstrate customer support ... who need to handle truckload moves as well as LTL consolidation, air, multimodal, and common carrier ... . Whether your company is new business or has been moving freight for years, Keypoint trucking [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 11:53:51
Dynamic Consolidation in
Sales pthompsontellsystems. com. 732. 899. 0202. From Dispatch through General Ledger, ... its Consolidation package. Tell Systems announces the monthly rental option MRO for smaller carriers. Tell Systems has been in business since providing LTL software solutions for years, to trucking companies [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 22:59:13
Clean Compliance - Port Style
On September 11th, the Port of Long Beach held a clean trucks workshop formatted to inform and ease the transition into an increasingly ... cargo owners (BCOs), ocean carriers, customs brokers and freight forwarders and other logistics industry ... s main point – the impending compliance date. If you’re planning on driving a truck, sending a truck [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 02:51:26
Weak demand leads to weak trucking stock prices
Via the Journal of Commerce: Shares in Con-way, a less-than-truckload carrier, fell almost 19 percent, ... guidance here. Post from: Logistics News - 3PLwire Weak demand leads to weak trucking stock prices ... Covenant Transportation Group saw its price fall 5 percent. Trucking brokerage firms C.H. Robinson [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 23:40:59
TRUCKING INDUSTRY OPINION * USA - Driver turnover down, bankruptcies up
The drop in driver turnover and the increase in carrier bankruptcies reflect economic change that began in the second quarter of 2007, according to the American Trucking Associations USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -17 Oct 2008 ... in the fourth quarters of 2004 and 2005 when freight was strong, was 103 percent in this year’s first [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 22:08:50
Proposed Fuel Surcharge Legislation, s.2910
So OOIDA has finally found a couple of sympathetic ears in Congress to introduce legislation that will require freight brokers to pass 100% of the fuel surcharge collected from a shipper to the driver or trucking company that actually paid ... m impressed. Um…think twice. Do you really think that the big carriers who broker loads to owner [more...]
Date: 2008-05-01 20:03:28
have good running truck
At least you call the shots. Outside of standard maintenance and regular repairs the truck served me well. just read story from trucking mag on them and they do make mistakes or wrong info because ... improvements to it. The carrier gives you crappy loads or screws with you until you finally quit and turn [more...]
Date: 2008-07-05 06:22:25
Latest Quarterly Shippers’ Survey
(Supply Chain Digest) Some Signs of Truckload Capacity Tightening, Continued Move of Freight from Truck to Rail With the collapse of Bear Stearns, ... is that shippers perceive tightening in terms of truckload carrier capacity, after almost two years of increasing ... for many years at his old firm. It is now called The State of the Freight, and the [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 11:07:08
STUDY & TRUCKER's COMMENT: * USA - FMCSA: high driver turnover and crashes linked
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration concluded from a recent study that driver turnover has an impact on crash involvement for commercial truck drivers... Washington,DC,USA -Trucking Blog Network, by Wayne Weisser -29 Oct 2008: -- I’ ... into something) have been when I was new to driving, not new to a company. Trucking is trucking. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 11:03:56
Providing transportation of goods for North America
All rights reserved. Virgin Islands, and Guam. www. overnite. com Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc ... regional LTL motor freight carrier serving the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Offers expedited ... freight serving the Canada, and Mexico. nationwide LTL trucking firm. www. abfs. com [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 21:18:48
Truck Owners and Truckers Packages
Truckers Package Program (TPP) A broad based program for regulated and non-regulated carriers of all sizes, providing: -Cargo, Section A -Physical Damage, Section B -Trailer Interchange Endorsement -Regulatory filings such as: ICC, PUC, Dept. Of Defense, Freight Forwarders, Etc. Truck Owners Package Program (TOPP [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 21:57:36
Logisource: Muncie’s Logical LTL Source
“RENEWING THE AMERICAN DREAM” Savvy Business Shopper Trucking Companies Can Move Heavier and Bulkier Freight Business Courier of Cincinnati - by ... using a less than truckload (LTL) carrier. These companies specialize in shipping items that weigh [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 20:03:08
Acting against former clients - the view from an appellate court
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal’s decision in Brookville Carriers Flatbed GP Inc. v. Blackjack Transport Ltd ... unauthorized commissions and charges in respect of certain over-sized trucking loads, and diverted [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 22:52:00
Professor creates program to ensure safer U.S. roads
A controversial one-year pilot program that has allowed Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States was supposed to end over the weekend, ... of Congress wanted to end the Mexican trucking program over concerns about American jobs, highway safety ... was created in an effort to generate and streamline international commerce. “American carriers [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 23:15:08
TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA - Con-way expands driver wellness program
USA -Fleet Owner -Sep 8, 2008: -- Con-way Freight is expanding its employee wellness program after positive initial results and feedback, ... USA, was launched as a pilot program early in 2007... The carrier will also launch a 10-week weight ... Uses Kenworth T660s To Gain Superior Fuel Efficiency Brandon,S.D.,USA -Truck Net, by Craig Zwiener [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 10:10:18
"GREEN" TRUCKS * Canada - McGuinty greenlights hybrid truck incentives
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -31 Oct 2008 -- Late yesterday afternoon, ... in the province -- a policy the Ontario Trucking Association has lobbied for years for... Under the four-year, $15-million Green Commercial Vehicle Program, select carriers will get grants to either [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 11:42:13
One Fabricant of the largest less than truckload
Earnings Preview Truckload Carriers. can list all carriers the they face driver shortage, and dont want to or hear see it ... Investment National Safety Fleet Award Grand winner. Large volume of trucking freight available for truck ... Rates. Find high paying expedited, generalLTL or full loads CMT Song truck freight for truck Symantec [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 12:32:30
Truckers gains moderate after House OKs 'rescue'
Some trucking stocks lost part of their gains Friday, while others lost ground, after the House approved the $700 billion bailout package. Most truckload carriers followed the broader market higher earlier, while less-than-truckload carriers fluctuated on continuing uncertainty over near-term demand and weakening pricing. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 17:53:56
New drivers survey to identify best employers
The Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge have launched the first annual Best Fleets to Drive For survey, identifying the top for-hire trucking industry employers in North America. [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 18:40:00
American Trucking Association (ATA) takes ports to court over Clean Truck Proposals
Updated July 29th: Logistics Management has a follow up featuring commentary from a legal expert: “It’s a blatant attempt to regulate the industry, ... would love to be able to change that. Via Logistics Management: “The time is right for this action,” said Curtis Whalen,executive director, Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference – an ATA affiliate [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 22:56:20
ATA legal challenges to LA/Long Beach “concession plans” - it’s not over yet
The ATA is still seeking an injunction against the enforcement of the ports’ concession plans that became effective October 1st, ... members, object to are the rules banning owner-operators. This handy article from Logistics Management ... essentially re-regulate interstate trucking, they must be overturned even if some minor elements relate [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 20:59:53
Department of Transportation governs
At the end of the day drivers turn in receipts, payments, records of deliveries made, and any reports on mechanical problems with their trucks ... database is easy to use for Freight Brokers. They pick up or deliver merchandise and packages within ... consumption, and engine performance. Freight Brokers the best of both worlds, because they have access [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 07:26:19
New Life to an Old Debate
No Comments ADVERTISEMENT Channels Agency Management Education Featured Market Forum Mergers & Financial News Policy & ... -Border Trucking Concerns The U.S. Department of Transportation recently extended for two years the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 00:33:50
Roller coaster diesel prices may be masking a new carrier pricing cycle
They took off like a rocket and fell like a stone. The spike and subsequent plunge in diesel prices over the last six months has quieted many ... industry and most recently ran Con-way Freight, is now advising some of our clients ... . —— Before the spike, carriers had been chasing a declining level of tonnage, keeping rates low [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 17:17:06
Bold? Maybe …
“Large truck fatality and injury rates are already at their lowest point since the federal government began reporting the figures three decades ago. But we must continue to raise the bar for safety.” –Bill Graves, president and CEO, American Trucking Association A few weeks ago the American Trucking Associations (ATA) took the wraps off [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 14:54:41
trucker or heavy haul carrier
trucker are required be able to read and speak English well enough to understand traffic signs, prepare required reports, ... . Specific endorsements, such as heavy haul loads, be required depending upon the companys needs ... rigging Reefer transport Double Belly and Pneumatics trucking has its own set of qualifications below [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 07:13:47
X3: Terran Conflict (and a QA rant)
November 10, 2008 I’ve always loved space games. Some years ago I discovered a little beauty, “X: Beyond the Frontier“. For an Elite fan, it was pure gold. Gameplay was open enough that you could choose between, what Granik terms, “Space Trucking” and a more pro-active combat game like Eve. It has been through [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 07:59:39
If Swift Can Do It…
Yahoo! News - Swift Speeding Up Carrier pricing power is improving industry-wide, and Swift is ahead of the curve ... truckers broke. There is a lot of good news about the economy, rates and trucking in general. But fuel ... the trucking capacity (supply) down by not allowing companies to over-hire drivers, rates will rise [more...]
Date: 2004-06-07 04:00:00
Erasing shipping’s “black hole” routes
Erasing shipping’s “black hole” routes As freight carriers increasingly turn to RFID to keep tabs on their cargo while in transit, ... it is difficult or impossible to obtain regular scans of passive RFID tags. Trucking routes from distribution centers in Seattle to distribution sites in Alaska are prime examples of this sort of RFID vacuum [more...]
Date: 2008-05-06 19:30:23
Truckers Dispatch connects people
Potential for lots of accidents! Eventually, you will be able to one of these jobs. It will simply take few years to some experience first. ... the application and then calls the applicant. trucking companies want you to few years experience ... on trucking companies Truckers In America Face A Tough Road Ahead Michigan Truck Accident Lawyers Holding [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 04:35:46
We service US states and Canada click
Find Jobs SMALL FAMILY OWNED flatbed trucking company located in Bellevue, Ohio, looking for Texas or California drivers. Contact us today! www ... . Servicing the US, Canada and Mexico. Freight services from and to any ltl Do you having experience driving ... Trucking Wide range of logistics & transportation services including LTL, Truckload, Flatbed [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 18:32:15
Top 10 Most Fatal Occupations
Are you thinking of getting a new job? You may want to check this list out before applying - these are the career paths that are most likely to see ... , leading to reckless driving that forces the truck driver to use evasive skills that can end up causing ... in other countries. 10 Truck Drivers Truck Driver Posture Death Ratio: 27 out of 100,000 [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 05:37:18
Green … and smart
“Our efforts not only reduce our carbon footprint but also help us remain competitive in the marketplace.” –Steve Matheys, executive vice president of global commercial services for trucking enterprise Schneider National That singular comment by Steve Matheys about Green Bay, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 14:32:12
APOL Tbk
APOL Tbk October 7, 2008 · Filed Under News · Comment PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line Tbk is an Indonesia-based shipping company ... subsidiaries, which are engaged in the freight forwarding, trucking and warehousing sectors, offering one stop shipping services to its customers. The Company operates four general cargo vessels; seven bulk [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 03:25:08
The lessons of Hud
“How many honest men you know? Hell, you separate the sinners and the saints and you’re lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln. Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, so I say let’s dip some of our bread in that gravy while it’s still hot!” – Rancher Hud Bannon, played by Paul Newman, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 10:46:32
The waters reach reality
“This initiative does more than simply add new lines to a map ... to create “marine highways” for U.S. freight is going to become reality sooner rather than later ... in locating shippers willing to move goods by water. “These highways have no stoplights, traffic or potholes [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 04:12:05
TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA & Canada
* USA - Congress OKs Fuel Surcharge Pass-Through OOIDA is also pushing for broader fuel-surcharge legislation that would apply to commercial ... : -- Surcharge pass-through legislation for Department of Defense freight contracts cleared Congress Saturday ... of Defense authorization bill, requires motor carriers and brokers under contract with the DOD [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 09:28:28
Just read about our clients and submit an
No hoops to jump through, no advertising messages popping up on the screen, no distractions. Dedicated Runs Available ... trucking companies in the country are right here at your finger tips. Read More Roadcheck Almost Through The trucking industry is currently in full swing of Roadcheck Find Truck Driving Company Jobs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 01:31:02
Familiarity breeds efficiency
“Distance makes the heart grow fonder and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this, my soul mate should be in Thailand ... of an oxymoron, especially in trucking. I mean, in the larger context, isn’t the familiar what we hold dear ... to LAX airport after attending a logistics trade shows [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 18:05:39
Rail carriers see profits in climate-friendly locomotives
By Colin Sullivan Climatewire: SAN FRANCISCO — The railroad industry in the West, led by a small-scale operator based in the Los Angeles area, ... air and carbon emissions produced by trucks, ships and freight trains moving in and out of the region. Trains account for 50 percent of the freight traffic in the Los Angeles port, but only 6 percent [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 13:42:55
Profile Tim Almack partner
buy, equipment utilization, performance measurements, reduction strategies and other operational matters. Tim is frequent speaker at trucking seminars and has written articles related to improving profitability of trucking companies. Maria Goretti Church and is past president of the Huntington Indiana [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 01:34:39
National transportation infrastructure fund legislation
my colleague’s post on Monday regarding proposed legislation to introduce a national container fee, ... be collected through two mechanisms: * a waybill fee for beneficial freight rail and commercial motor vehicle cargo owners—or shippers—that is assessed against the cost of transportation [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 10:57:31
TRUCKING MARKET ANALYSIS * USA
Analyst: "...remains optimistic for the future (of the trucking industry) .. ... percent over last year... This consolidation will help supply and demand come back into balance across the sector by handing off more freight to surviving companies, Yagerman said. As more carriers shut [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 09:24:18
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